Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-10-08

ETC., etc.
"An, Fleasance, you all thought at the
trial that the captain gloried in what he
had done. Don't you believe that no
more. Only he had to do it, you know
it was his duty.
"Then Joshua Mech told how the run
e was to be that very night, how the
Dancing Polly was already gone, and
how she would return the next night.
"The captain took it all down.
"Is that all:' he asked.
""That is ALL said Joshua.
"'Then 60. Do not breathe the aif of
this with mel Great heavens!' he
cried, starting to his feet, that such a
villain should live in this kingdom of
England and call himself my fellow
countryman! Cor
There Pleasance; now you know ALL"
Yes; this was his revenge. This was
his plan to prevent me from marrying
Will. To make this impossible, or to defer
it, he had the incredible baseness to sac,i-
flee his uncle and his cousins. Was it
possible, could any one have believed that
u man could be so wicked2
sat all that day meditatine revenge.
thinking in what way I could most injure
this man. One wild plan after another
suggested itself to me. l would set fire to
his mill. I would secretly destroy the
trees in his orchard. l would put q stone
in the wheels of his mill. Iwould 60 into
the town and tell everybody.
Nothing, however, satisfied me. Re-
venge never does satisfy. If his mill was
burned, he would build it up again; but
that would not give me back Dan, and the
boys, and Will and the Dancing Polly. He
could repair any mischief I could do him.
Even if I whispered 1t round in Lyme
Regis that he was the informer, he would
deny it, and l had no proof because John
Beer was bound to silence. What then
could 1 do?
In the evening, still brooding over the
revenge was to take, / grew restless and
walked over the fields to the mill itself.
1t was a bright night; the valleys which
stretch away behind Lyme lay all bathed
in a beautiful moonlight; everything was
peaceful and quiet, except the heart
of the girl who went along tho
lonely way. She met no one, she saw
nothing; her soul was full of an inextin-
g%uishable craving for vengeance; she was
like a tigro 5 bereft Of her cubs.
The mill stood alone in it's field, silent,
and backed by the black depths of its
shadows and the woods. The top of the
big wheel could be made out standing
clear against the sky. Beneath it poured
the waters Of the Leaf, which in the day
time worked the wheel.
| stole like Il shadow through the or
chard; Oh the other side, away from tho
mill, was q Kinney, or penthouse, where
Joshua's wagon was kept. l sat down
on tho broad wheel Of the wagon, trying
to put my disordered thoughts into
some sort of shape. I hungered for re-
vengc; l longed to make him suffer, 1
had como here to feel near to the man on
whom was going to work revenge.
lie wa: on the other side of the wall, I
thought. He was chuckling, no doubt,
over tho end of my love story-laughing
To think that my lover was serving before
the mast Oh one of his majesty's ships
for three long years. Oh, villain!
1t was something to be near him, to feel
that one could even kill him if one had
the strength-thut alone was wanting; to
think that close to him one could execute
whatever the mind could conceive.
Presently, as l listened, I heard voices.
Some one was with him then. I crept
from the penthouse and stepped lightly
over the narrow flower bed which stood
beneath the window. The shutter was
closed, but one knew what sort of a shut
ter would be that of Joshua's cottage at
the mill. In fact, it was not even barred,
and there was q hole in it, through which
I saw what was going on. The visitor
was u old friend Mr.. Mallock, Justice of
the peace. and he was talking in his mag
isterial way.
"Quite u providence, Joshua"-he
wagged his head till his purple cheeks
shook and wabbled-"that you were able
to rescue the cargo. Quite a providence.
A + ono tiOon 7 fhn1,rhf I cno,,1l H. oh1o b
dismiss the charge, but it was impossible.
Poor old Dan! Poor boys! Who was the
villain that informed9'
~ wish we knew, SIR"
81 wish we did, with all my heart. He
would get a warm reception ut Lyme, 1
promise him so much. However-three
years-it is a long time. You may send
me, Joshua, at the old price-ah!-twenty
kegs-yes, I think 1 had better secure
what l can get. Twenty kegs. Dear me-!
They can come tomorrow morning in flour
sacks. 1 will pay for them now"
There was a great counting out of
money on the table. When Joshua was
satisfied that it was all right. he put it up
i'll n little bag, and promised to bring the
brandy next morning.
Then the worthy justice of the peace re.
tired. I slipped back to my place of con.
cealment, while Joshua accompanied his
visitor to the door, with many expressions
of gratitude for his custom and his con-
doleEces.
''You are very welcome, Joshua, very
welcome said his worship; "and as for
that villain''-
Hc disappeared in the darkness, still
muttering what he would do, had he the
power, to the scoundrel who spoiled an
honest mans trade.
Joshua went back, and I heard him bar
the door. SO that I knew he would have
no other visitors.
Then l returned 10 my place and
watched him again through the hole of
the shutter.
He was rather pale, and his hand was
shaking. No doubt he was thinking Of
his villainy.
He went to the cupboard in the wall
and drew out a bottle, containing, I knew
well, some of poor Dan Gulliver's best. I
wished l could dash the bottle in his face
us he drank from q wine glass.
The brandy gave him courage, l sup
pose. for he looked round him with a more
assured air. What he was saying to him
self, l believe, was that no one knew except
Capt. Pollard, and he certainly could not
tell. Nobody knew! Why, within o
short six feet of where he stood was the
girl he had SO foully wronged burning to
be avenged.
He tied the bag of money which Mr..
Mallock had left with him tightly, and
taking a short. thick poker which stood
beside the andirons, he pried up the
hearthstOne. There he deposited the bag
and replaced the stone carefully, taking
the %presaution to sweep ashes over the
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